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...comparison with the loose fielding displayed against Wentworth last Monday the team's fielding showed some improvement with only three errors committed, none of which proved damaging. Responsible for these miscues were Tom Ayres, the left fielder, Johnny Kilpatrick, third baseman, and Bill Hamlen, the catcher, who was hooted goodnaturedly for his misplay since he was playing against his old school...
...ferocity of will and conviction equal to, if not greater than, the vaunted fanaticism of the Hun. So, for all these reasons, the fact of Russia is most prominent in the minds of Englishmen, and in their emotions, too. In a word, Soviet Russia is immensely popular. By comparison, their cousin country of America is scarcely noticed; at best, America is taken for granted; at worst, they think a good deal less highly of America than of themselves, which is not very highly...
...insect pest, for example, must first be compared and classified before it can be efficiently combated. Evolutionary changes, which only careful comparison can verify, have appeared in some species since the type specimen was first chosen, a century or two ago. And, though any curator can catch a Musca domestica (or housefly) in his own soup, he would probably give his right ear to have the original type. Among other items selected for bomb-sheltering from the Smithsonian collection (valued at $300,000,000 but irreplaceable, says one of its officers, at three times that figure...
...Whatever German Armies achieved in [the French, Lowlands, Norwegian and Balkan] . . . campaigns pales in comparison with the task [in Russia...
...addition to this, Duhig admitted that employment conditions this summer would not be as favorable as in the winter. The luxury trade of entertainment and tutoring will be especially fiat in comparison to past years, he said...